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S Club 7 member Hannah Spearritt, pictured at the Cleethorpes Comic-Con

He said he was pleased to welcome Hannah Spearritt, 36, who was one of the original members of S Club 7 from 1999 until they split up in 2003.

She has landed a role in hit TV series EastEnders as Kandice, the younger sister of the dole-dependant family led by Karen Taylor.

Plenty of drama is promised, but Hannah was “tight-lipped” about her role.

“It is all part of a new journey and an exciting challenge in acting,” she said.

While in Cleethorpes for her first-ever visit she reminisced about her start with S Club 7 and how she was at school studying for her A levels in her native Norfolk, when she got the big break to join the group.

Cleethorpes Comic-Con, held at the Cleethorpes Leisure Centre.

Hannah said: “It is a very different world now. There was no reality TV, no Twitter and no Instagram.

“I was auditioning for a role in Annie locally and had hoped to get into the National Musical Theatre. Every summer was spent touring and working with some of the most amazing people. They were people way more talented than I was and I was learning a lot and growing.

“It was Bugsy Malone which did it for me when it was on a three-month run and around that time S Club 7 was on the horizon. It was carry on with A level maths or join S Club 7!”